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HONOLULU – go! today announced it has concluded a code share agreement with Hawaii Island Air Inc. (dba Island Air). Effective March 25, 2009 and available for immediate travel, Mesa's independent Hawai'i operation, dba go!, will begin marketing services to be flown by Island Air between Kahului, Maui and Hilo, the Big Island and Lihu'e, Kaua'i; Honolulu and Kapalua, Maui; Honolulu and Lana'i; Honolulu and Moloka'i; Kahului, and Kona, the Big Island and between Kahului and Moloka'i. The new services will be available through go!'s website at iflygo.com or by calling 1-888-iflygo2 and also Island Air's website at islandair.com or by calling 808-484-2222 (O'ahu) and 800-652-6541 (neighbor islands and N. America).

Commenting on the agreement, Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein said, "We are delighted to be working with Island Air which has a long tradition of high quality service in the islands. This code share agreement will allow go! to extend its network and offer the people of Hawai'i an even greater choice for inter-island travel." Mr. Ornstein added, "We look forward to exploring other synergies and mutually beneficial opportunities with Island Air in the near future and we reaffirm our commitment to continuing to serve the people and businesses of Hawai'i with great service and low fares."

Island Air Chairman, Charles Willis said, "We welcome the opportunity to add go! to our list of distinguished code share partners. Island Air remains committed to making inter-island travel easy and convenient."

This press release contains various forward-looking statements that are based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable; it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. Such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected.

Island Air is Hawai'i's leading regional carrier, serving airports on all major Hawaiian Islands. The airlines now offers 384 weekly flights between the islands of O'ahu (Honolulu International Airport), Maui (Kahului Airport and West Maui's Kapalua Airport), Moloka'i (Ho'olehua Airport), Lana'i (Lana'i City Airport), Kaua'i (Lihue Airport), and the Island of Hawai'i (Hilo International Airport and Kona International Airport). For reservations, flight information, and free membership in Island Air's Cloud 9 Customer Rewards Program, visit www.islandair.com.

Mesa currently operates 151 aircraft with over 800 daily system departures to 119 cities, 36 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, the Bahamas and Mexico. Mesa operates as Delta Connection, US Airways Express and United Express under contractual agreements with Delta Air Lines, US Airways and United Airlines, respectively, and independently as Mesa Airlines and go!. In June 2006 Mesa launched inter-island Hawaiian service as go!. This operation links Honolulu to the neighbor island airports of Hilo, Kahului, Kona and Lihue. The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 5,000 employees and was awarded Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine in 1992 and 2005

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HONOLULU- go!, Hawaii's Low Fare Airline, today celebrated its 2,000,000th passenger with a champagne flight from Hilo to Honolulu.

In the spirit of go!'s recent "Everyone's a Winner" campaign, all passengers on the flight received lei, special celebration gift bags and complimentary round trip tickets. Excitement was maintained throughout the flight with everyone learning the name of the 2 millionth passenger only after arrival in Honolulu. The lucky one in 2,000,000, Lora Reeve of Hilo, Hawai'i was delighted to learn she was the recipient of unlimited complimentary travel on go! for a whole year.

"I am so excited to have won! It's huge benefit for me because I commute from Hilo to teach and attend graduate school at UH Manoa. I am very grateful to go! for this award. I already fly go! but this makes flying even better," said Reeve.

"Today is another important milestone for go! and one of celebration not only for Lora and her fellow passengers but also for the people of Hawai'i who have benefited from go!'s everyday low fares," said Paul Skellon, VP of go!. Adding, "We wish to thank our many loyal customers, our partners and everyone on the go! Team for their continued support and dedication. We look forward to building on this success in the years ahead."

Reeve was traveling from her home in Hilo to Honolulu where she is a Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii.

"Our on-board celebration this morning was fantastic! We are very happy to give special thanks to those who flew with us today and to all of the two million passengers who have flown go! since we began operating in 2006," said Joe Bock, Chief Marketing Officer of go!. "Every day we work to provide the best interisland travel options for Hawaii's residents and visitors and we appreciate the outstanding community support we have received," he continued.

Passengers who register for go! Miles frequent flyer program are able to earn go! Miles redeemable for travel and can earn 500 miles just by registering online. Members of the program also receive go!'s monthly newsletter with frequent opportunities to win free neighbor island and mainland vacation getaways! Additional information is available and tickets can be booked online at www.iflygo.com or by calling toll free 1-888-iflygo2.

Mesa currently operates 151 aircraft with over 800 daily system departures to 119 cities, 36 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Mexico. Mesa operates as Delta Connection, US Airways Express and United Express under contractual agreements with Delta Air Lines, US Airways and United Airlines, respectively, and independently as Mesa Airlines and go!. In June 2006 Mesa launched inter-island Hawaiian service as go! This operation links Honolulu to the neighbor island airports of Hilo, Kahului, Kona and Lihue. The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 5,000 employees and was awarded Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine in 1992 and 2005. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.

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Honolulu – go! today reported preliminary traffic figures for February 2009 and noted it achieved 56,052 passenger enplanements, an 11.90% increase over the 50,090 passengers carried in February 2008. Last month go! generated 12.00 million available seat miles and 7.95 million revenue passenger miles versus 10.97 million available seat miles and 7.23 million revenue passenger miles in February 2008. go!’s load factor for February 2009 was 66.23% compared to 65.92% for the same period in 2008.

“We are once again encouraged by the strong increase in passenger numbers year over year in spite of the current difficult economic climate and falling visitor numbers to Hawaii,” said Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein. “We remain optimistic 2009 will be a year of continuing progress and opportunity for go! and we thank all of our passengers who have helped us grow our business this past year, as well as all of our people who do a truly great job providing outstanding service.” Mr. Ornstein said.

Paul Skellon, Vice President go! said, “go! will continue to provide great opportunities for more people to visit friends and family and for small businesses to grow through exciting offers such as our new $43* fare guarantee program.” Mr. Skellon added, “Later this month we will celebrate flying our first 2 million passengers, an outstanding achievement after less than three years and one that could only have been possible through the support of the people of Hawaii, and the dedication of our people and partners. We wish to thank them all” Passengers who register for go! Miles frequent flyer program are able to earn go! Miles redeemable for travel and can earn 500 miles just by registering online. Members of the program also receive go!’s monthly newsletter with frequent opportunities to win free neighbor island and mainland vacation getaways! Additional information is available and tickets can be booked online at www.iflygo.com or by calling toll free 1-888-IFLYGO2.

Mesa currently operates 151 aircraft with over 800 daily system departures to 119 cities, 36 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Mexico. Mesa operates as Delta Connection, US Airways Express and United Express under contractual agreements with Delta Air Lines, US Airways and United Airlines, respectively, and independently as Mesa Airlines and go!. In June 2006 Mesa launched inter-island Hawaiian service as go! This operation links Honolulu to the neighbor island airports of Hilo, Kahului, Kona and Lihue. The Company, founded by Larry and Janie Risley in New Mexico in 1982, has approximately 5,000 employees and was awarded Regional Airline of the Year by Air Transport World magazine in 1992 and 2005. Mesa is a member of the Regional Airline Association and Regional Aviation Partners.

* Offer only available to go!Miles members. To receive a promotion code good for 40 segments at the special $43 fare members must register prior to March 11, 2009. Travel on the special $43 fare must be completed by May 15, 2009. Special fare only valid when booked through iflygo.com or by calling 1-888-iflygo2 with your special Good to go! $43 fare code. Tickets purchased via go! reservations are subject to a $5 fee. Tickets are non-transferable and unused tickets are no longer valid. Special fares are valid per segment and are non-refundable once purchased.Changes can be made prior to scheduled departure for a fee of $20 per person. go!Miles member must enter go!Miles member number and promotional code at iflygo.com at time of booking to be able to book special fares. Fares are subject to seat availability during the travel period shown and may change at any time without notice. Additional costs of $3.60 Federal Segment Excise Tax per segment and a $2.50 per enplanement September 11th Security Fee will be applied to each ticket purchase. Flights operated by Mesa Airlines doing business as go!. Fares are not valid on code share flights or on go!Express flights operated by Mokulele Airlines. Passengers may check their 1st bag for $10 and their 2nd for $17. Other restrictions apply.

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Honolulu – go! today reported preliminary traffic figures for January 2009 and noted it achieved 58,216 passenger enplanements, a 33.03% increase over the 43,763 passengers carried in January 2008. Last month go! generated 13.28 million available seat miles and 8.58 million revenue passenger miles versus 11.02 million available seat miles and 6.43 million revenue passenger miles in January 2008. go!’s load factor for January 2009 was 64.6% compared to 58.4% for the same period in 2008.

“In spite of falling tourism and a difficult economic environment, we are extremely pleased with the significant increase in passengers year over year and the continued support for go! from the people of Hawaii,” said Mesa Air Group Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ornstein. “We are optimistic 2009 will be a year of continuing progress and opportunity for go!. and we look forward to soon celebrate flying our 2,000,000th passenger,” Mr. Ornstein said. “We thank all of our passengers who have helped us grow our business this past year, as well as all of our people who do a truly great job providing outstanding service.” Paul Skellon, VP go! said,” As a result of increased demand and an encouraging trend in advanced bookings, we have added a significant number of extra flights in the coming months with additional service in the markets of Kahului, Maui; Kona, the Big Island and Lihue, Kaua’i.” Mr. Skellon added,” The addition of extra services further demonstrates our commitment to the people and businesses of Hawai’i that we are here to stay.”

Passengers who register for go! Miles frequent flyer program are able to earn go! Miles redeemable for travel and can earn 500 miles just by registering online. Members of the program also receive go!’s monthly newsletter with frequent opportunities to win free neighbor island and mainland vacation getaways! Additional information is available and tickets can be booked online at www.iflygo.com or by calling toll free 1-888-IFLYGO2.

Iflygo - the in flight magazine for go!   (March/April 2009)

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